You Chose Your Life, I Stepped Aside

A father relives life, refusing to block his daughter's romance after dying in regret.

High school teacher Ian Lynch discovers on his deathbed that his daughter Lucy secretly despised him for a decade because he opposed her relationship with Chad Carter. Their final fight ends with Ian dying of illness. Granted a second chance, Ian returns to the past and deliberately suppresses his protective instincts, refusing to interfere in Lucy's romantic choices and accepting her anger as the cost of her autonomy.

• rebirth
• family
• drama

1. Ian Lynch raised Lucy alone
2. Lucy hated him for ten years
3. Ian relives past, stops opposing Chad

This story fits anyone drawn to second-chance family dramas where a parent learns restraint.